
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis. […]
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis. […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions: Lydia Bourouiba is promoted to the rank of full Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Bourouiba received her PhD from McGill University […]
Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions. […]
Plata’s expertise in academics and industry will help advance the mission of the consortium and propel implementable climate solutions forward. […]
Desirée Plata aims to capture methane before it warms the climate. At one of the nation’s largest dairy farms, environmental engineer Desirée Plata and her students wade through the muck of a thousand cattle. Inside the football field–sized […]
President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Desirée Plata about her research — and what she wishes students knew about their professors. […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty have been granted tenure by MIT: Otto Cordero was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2022. Cordero’s research looks […]